Title: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Sex Ed Lesson

You are most challenged by behaviors like questioning, arguing, or complaining. For you, nothing makes you feel quite as powerless as a mid-lesson power struggle. If you find yourself getting into an endless back-and forth, there are a couple things you could try doing. Use humor to get through the situation, present the challenger’s statements to the larger group, or simply say that a lot of time has gone into planning the lesson.

Questioning Behaviors

Oversharing Behaviors

You are most challenged by behaviors like oversharing, one-upping, or monopolizing. You strive to make your classroom a place where everybody participates, and sometimes struggle to redirect the spotlight away from those who seem to bask in it. Make sure there is a group agreement about sharing the spotlight/floor/time equally among all participants.

Distracting Behaviors

You are most challenged by behaviors like clowning, distracting, withdrawing, or sleeping. Those early morning classes can be a killer for students AND you! Consider making an energizer at the beginning of class a standard practice to get participants’ blood flowing and minds more alert. (It’s not a bad idea to do this anytime the energy seems to be waning!”

Excited! Icebreaker time!

Questioning Behaviors, Oversharing Behaviors

It’s 8:05 AM and class is about to begin. As you look around the room, you note that everyone's heads are on the desks. Even Sam, who is always full of energy, is groggy. This makes you feel...

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Today’s topic: Sexually transmitted infections. You have a lot to cover. Everything is going well, until the worst happens. What is it?

It’s time to reinforce content with a game, but after passing out game pieces and asking students to stand, something throws you off. Pick the most disruptive:

Oversharing ehaviors

Questioning behaviors

You're observing your co-facilitator leading a debrief of the game. While many of the students are participating, others are not. Which of the following do you find most frustrating?

Oversharing behaviors, distracting behaviors

Oversharing Behaviors,Distracting Behaviors

A hand flies up. A student asks if STIs can be spread though oral sex. "Yes, of course!" you reply, but are soon cut off by another student in the back. "No way! There's no way you can get an STI from that!" You react...

Questioning behaviors, Distracting behaviors

Oversharing behaviors

With all this talk about oral sex, two students begin to share some "techniques" with the larger group. Their conversation becomes a competition as they clearly try to out-do each other. What's on your mind?

The power struggles!

Lack of participation!

Distracting behaviors

The oversharing! TMI!

Finally, it's the end of class. You're about to wrap up this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad lesson. What can't you stop thinking about?

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